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Healing and Society in Medieval England: A Middle English Translation of the Pharmaceutical Writings of Gilbertus Anglicus
by ANGLICUS, Gilbertus
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0299129306
- ISBN 13
- 9780299129309
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About This Item
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. Hardcover. Edited by Faye Marie Getz. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. lxxiii, 378pp. Frontispiece. Fine/fine. A superbly tight and pristine first edition of Number 8 in the "Wisconsin Publications in the History of Science and Medicine" series.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39394
- Title
- Healing and Society in Medieval England: A Middle English Translation of the Pharmaceutical Writings of Gilbertus Anglicus
- Author
- ANGLICUS, Gilbertus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0299129306
- ISBN 13
- 9780299129309
- Publisher
- The University of Wisconsin Press
- Place of Publication
- Madison
- Date Published
- 1991
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Medical;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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